How to cook red currant jelly?

Bright red with a sweet-sour taste, red currant berries are little used in food in their original form, but they are a product from which you can prepare a lot of delicious dishes. You can make compotes, juices, fruit drinks from currants, add them to milkshakes as a syrup, use them as a filling for pies, make sweet and sour sauces, jams, jellies.

The caloric content of red currant berries is 39 kilocalories per 100 grams of product. The composition includes: 0.6 grams of protein, 0.2 grams of fat, 11 grams of carbohydrates.

A lot of iron berries, tannins, pectin, carotene. High and potassium content, which is good news for people suffering from diseases of the heart and blood vessels.

It has a significant supply of vitamins A, C, R. According to the content of vitamin C, red currant is inferior to the unconditional leader in this regard - black, however, in comparison with raspberries or strawberries, it is no less in it.

Vitamin A is important for healthy skin, hair, bones, promotes the growth of new cells, slows the aging process, provides strong immunity and good eyesight. Year-round consumption of these berries will help to maintain health and youth for many years.

For people on a diet, red currant is an indispensable component of the diet. In addition to the above properties, contains few calories, so the diet menu has a place as a source of vitamins. In addition, it is widely used in cosmetology: currant masks provide a tightening of the skin of the face, have a cleansing and healing effect.

People who have a sore heart, must necessarily make friends with the fruits of red currant, because they have a beneficial effect on cardiovascular activity, provide prevention of heart attack due to the high content of potassium and iron.

Culture helps to excrete salt with urine. Providing excretion of excess fluid from the body, makes it possible to prevent the appearance of bags and swelling under the eyes.

Sufferers of atherosclerosis are required to include in the diet of red currants. The pectins contained in it contribute to the elimination of cholesterol and, accordingly, prevent atherosclerotic plaques from forming.

It also provides an opportunity to improve intestinal motility. People suffering from chronic constipation, as a solution, can use the infusion, which is made from 3 tablespoons of red currant fruit, brewed with a glass of boiling water.

The infusion can also be made from leaves: they are poured with 1 glass of water and производ hours are heated in a water bath. The use of such tea will help those who suffer from cystitis, hypovitaminosis. As for the juice - it is tasty, quenches thirst, tones and has a tonic effect.

Pregnant women to note: the berry helps to reduce toxicosis, overcome the state of nausea, stop vomiting.

In general, the spectrum of action of the product is quite wide - it has anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, analgesic, choleretic, laxative, hemostatic, anti-allergic actions.

For all its usefulness, in some cases, the fetus may be contraindicated. Causes aggravation in ulcers and those who suffer from hepatitis and gastritis.

With low clotting, hemophilia, red currant should be forgotten.

Also, do not use it to those who have individual intolerance or allergies to this product.

In addition, in some cases, currants can increase the sensitivity of teeth, so it should be carefully eaten by people with sensitive tooth enamel.

If you are among the lucky ones who have a dacha, and bushes of a magic berry called red currant grow on it, it will be a crime not to use the fruits of the miraculous shrub.Caring mothers and grandmothers will be able to please the household with such a tasty product as jelly. To create this exquisite dessert does not require a lot of ingredients, but in order to enjoy the tasty and healthy dessert dish in winter, you have to work hard.

It is necessary to take 3 kg of berries and sugar, that is, a 1: 1 ratio. Accordingly, for any weight of berries, take the same number of kilograms of granulated sugar.

Carefully sort out the main ingredient - remove the leaves, stems, twigs, spoiled berries. Rinse the enumerated product first in the container, then fold to a sieve and place under running water, rinsing again. Let the water drain.

It is important to choose a good pot: the bottom should be thick, the lid should fit snugly. Pure currant shifts into it. With the help of tolkushki squeezed juice After that, the lid tightly covered capacity for cooking. Initially, the flames of fire do more. When heated, the berries will burst, giving off juice. After boiling the boiling mass, make the fire smaller. After half an hour the berries will be boiled soft, and the mass will decrease in volume (diminished).

Takes a fine sieve. The berry is rubbed through it. This should be done in parts, carefully. Pectin, which is present in currants, is in the skin and pulp - it is important not to lose beneficial substances. The remaining cake from the zealous hostess can serve as raw material for compote.

The currant mash obtained as a result of wiping should be mixed with sugar until it is completely dissolved. The container with the mixture is sent to the gas stove. It is brought to a boil and then cooked for 20 minutes.

Prepare 4 half-liter jars (wash, sterilize), 4 boiling lids boil. Alternatively, parchment paper may be used.

In the sterilized warm banks unfold the mass is decomposed. Closed with lids or clean parchment paper in several layers. Store in a dry, dark place. In the case of using parchment, you should know that the moisture will gradually evaporate, and in the container you will get something like marmalade, which can even be cut into pieces.

This recipe will help out for a dinner party as a dessert. The cooking is simple, but extremely useful and presentable. Beautiful red color will delight the eye of your guests.

To prepare you should take very few components:

• berry - 75 g;
• water - 1.5 cups;
• gelatin - 1 tablespoon;
• lemon juice - half a tablespoon;
• sugar - according to individual taste preferences.

Consider the step by step cooking instructions.

• Gelatin is soaked in water for half an hour (a glass of water is consumed per spoonful of gelatin).
• Thoroughly washed currant frays through a sieve.
• The resulting mass is poured half a glass of water. Then heated to boiling point, cooked for about 5 minutes, periodically stirred with a spoon.
• The mixture is filtered through cheesecloth. To the resulting broth is added sugar and lemon juice. The solution is brought to a boil.
• Gelatin is introduced. When mixing, it should completely dissolve. Berry juice is added, the prepared molds are filled with the resulting liquid.
• The jelly is cooled. Frozen mass is served at the table. You can use selected berries, cream with a mint leaf, a little chocolate or coconut chips as decoration.

In the process of cooking will be inevitable loss of vitamins. In order to preserve the vitamin reserve of the product as much as possible, you can make a delicacy without heat treatment

Only two ingredients are required for cooking - a pound of sugar and a pound of berries.

Cooking such jelly at home is a snap:

• washed and sorted berry grind with a meat grinder or food processor;
• add sugar, which should be stirred until dissolved, if necessary, add some hot water (approximately 50 ml);
• distribute the resulting mass in the molds, then send in the cold.

Like the previous recipe, berry pectin will act as a gelling agent.

The proportion of berries to sugar is three to two. For example, on 300 g of berries we take 200 g of sugar and 50 ml of water.

• Dip a clean berry into the water, bring to a boil. Rasparit berry, crushing her skimmer, tamping and shredding.
• Add sugar, cook the mixture for about five minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• Strain the thick brew through cheesecloth, then distribute the liquid obtained after straining into the prepared forms.

Per liter of juice is taken a kilogram of sugar. When using currant gelling varieties, sugar can be taken twice less. Sugar is added to the juice, which is stirred until a homogeneous mass is obtained. This mixture is placed in a saucepan with a thick bottom, brought to a boil, boiled for no more than 5 minutes.

This method is applicable in the summer for canning for the winter, and in the fall and winter with the help of a frozen product will allow to diversify the menu, strengthen immunity and health.

Fresh berry is a storehouse of vitamins and minerals. However, it is not always possible to consume fresh produce. The way out may be the use of frozen berries. Pre-washed and dried berries spread on a tray in a single layer, placed in a compartment for freezing the refrigerator. Then divided into portions, portion bags are placed in the storage compartment, where they can be up to a year.

There is another option for freezing vitamin - freezing juice. In this case, you have to tinker, but this preparation will facilitate the preparation of dishes in the future.

The process of harvesting begins with the classic preparatory stage: the berry gets over and washes. Drain it in this case does not make sense, because in the future currants should be boiled for a couple of minutes in boiling water, knead to a texture similar to mashed potatoes. From this mass should squeeze the juice with gauze. This process is quite time-consuming. Therefore, the owners of juicers are lucky: manual work is easily replaced by mechanical, and this processing step is quick and easy.

Further, sugar is added to the resulting juice according to the taste of the supplier, and taking into account the purpose of further use. If the hostess plans to cook compotes, then it is advisable to add sugar in the cooking process. If syrup is made for ice cream, sugar is added immediately.

Juice can be frozen in ice bags (in this case, red cubes can be used to cool drinks, which will look both aesthetically pleasing and add new taste sensations), in special freezer containers, in juice bags.

The prudent hostess will always provide her family with healthy, tasty and wholesome food, regardless of the season. Red currant in this list is given one of the most honorable places.

See the following video for a recipe for making red currant jelly.